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| Bethune Theatredanse provides disabled children with an opportunity to affirm their capabilities by participating in the world of movement and dance. Through its Infinite Dreams program, the organization brings professional dancers into schools to share an art form, and enable the children to participate in the beauty and grace of dance. Infinite Dreams has grown to serve over 1,000 children from the ages of 4 to 16 at nine sites in Southern California, with over 6,200 graduates. The children of Infinite Dreams have performed at Disneyland Space Theatre, the Young Audiences Concert Series, and on regional and national television programs including Romper Room, ABC's Mike & Maty, the Cerebral palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, and Children's Variety Club Telethons, and were the feature story for KCET's "California Stories".
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| Community Build, Inc. is dedicated to the revitalization of its community through human investment and commercial economic development. Its goal is to empower the communities it serves and the young people of today by investing, training, and equipping them with the skills, resources, confidence and encouragement they need to become active participants in the process of rebuilding the community. Youth programs include: college bound mentoring, health education and treatment, consulting services, youthful offender services, and gang involvement reduction.
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| EVERYBODY WINS! Los Angeles Founded in New York City in 1991, Everybody Wins! provides "reading partners" for elementary school children through two programs: Power Lunch and Readers Are Leaders. Recently expanded to Los Angeles, Everybody Wins! is a privately-funded national non-profit organization devoted to increasing children's prospects for success in school and in life through one-to-one reading experiences. With programs across the nation, the number of children "winning" totals more than 6,000.
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| Greenway Arts Alliance (GAA) Located on the campus of Fairfax High School, the most ethnically and culturally diverse high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, GAA provides quality theater and arts programs that address contemporary issues facing people of all ages and backgrounds to over 3,000 students through their Arts Recovery Project. Offering workshops in digital film production, creative writing, screenwriting, performance, and multi-media art, GAA gives students the opportunity to participate in arts programs no longer offered through the school system. |
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STREETLIGHTS is a nonprofit job training, job placement and mentoring program that provides opportunities for employment in the entertainment industry for economically or socially disadvantaged young minority men and women. This pioneer organization was founded in 1992 by commercial and documentary producer Dorothy Thompson. Staffed by experienced industry professionals, Streetlights' mission is to promote ethnic diversity in the entertainment industry while helping the students overcome any barriers to employment. The ultimate goal is to assist the graduates in career advancement; establishing themselves in the departments that interest them, and for which they show aptitude. With each step forward, they become closer to attaining social and economic parity for themselves and their families. |
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Theatre Of Hearts/Youth First was founded in 1987 as a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization promoting understanding and empowerment through cultural forums and arts education. The Youth First Artist-in-Residence Program of Theatre of Hearts, Inc. works to prevent and intervene in youth-on-youth violence by involving youth and their families in on-going, high-quality, multidisciplinary fine arts workshops at schools and community sites. The program is built around a model of inclusion, crossing lines of race and cultural difference. |
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Other Los Angeles Network organizations include:
ABC Learn
Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center
A Place Called Home
Ashay: Educational Resources for a Multicultural World
Career Dreams Educational Foundation
Catholic Big Brothers
Century Center for Economic Opportunity
YouthBuild
Communities in Schools
Community Build
Drive By Agony
Everybody Wins!
Greenway Arts Alliance
Hands for Hope
Hollywood Entertainment Museum
Inside Out Community Arts
Los Angeles Youth Network
National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute
Next Level Athletic & Educational Assoc.
Reading to Kids
Streetlights
United Care, Inc. Foster Family Agency
Young Storytellers Foundation
Youth Employment Systems
Youth Mentoring Connection |
